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Analyst: BP Oil Spill Clean-Up Will Have $60-Billion Price Tag; Divide
We all know the BP oil spill is a huge mess. It's going to be costly to clean up - but just how much? And while some outspoken critics are calling for BP to eliminate its dividend, they probably aren't realizing the residual effects. On the June 10 broadcast of Fox Business Network's "Bulls & Bears," Fadel Gheit, a senior analyst at Oppenheimer & Co., offered a huge estimate. But, he…
Media Continue War against Plastic Chemical BPA
Reporters attack bisphenol-A; claim it causes 'liver disease, heart failure, all sorts of things,' despite enormous doses necessary to impact humans.
November Election Already 'Mightily Out of Control' for G.O.P., Says F
One of the New York Times's favorite themes is the ever-impending Republican civil war that will ruin the party's chances in whatever election that's coming up. Former chief political reporter Adam Nagourney is a past master, but he's now covering the West Coast. Luckily, Times contributor Matt Bai was there to fill the gap Thursday, explaining how the Republicans may blow a great opportunity…
Analyst: BP Oil Spill Clean-Up Will Have $60 Billion Price Tag
Fadel Gheit of Oppenheimer & Co. says exorbitant amount will be spread over 10 years, making it 'manageable.'
WaPo Devotes 60-Paragraph Front Page Story to Workaholic Kagan, Pays L
Borrowing a line from one of her Harvard colleagues, the Washington Post entitled its June 10 front-page profile of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, "Her work is her life is her work."*But the 60-paragraph story by staff writers Ann Gerhart and Philip Rucker shed barely any light on the judicial philosophy that Kagan's life work demonstrates. Instead, Gerhart and Rucker presented a gauzy…
ABC's Terry Moran Frets that 'Republican Reformist' Schwarzenegger Is
Nightline's Terry Moran on Wednesday profiled Arnold Schwarzenegger as a "Republican reformist" and never once referred to him as a liberal. Instead, the co-anchor tagged the California Governor as a "lonely figure" in the GOP. Moran sympathized, "When you look at the way the Republican Party is going, here in California and around the country, rise of the tea party, candidates like Rand Paul, do…
NBC's Mitchell Scolds Big Labor for Daring to 'Embarrass' White House
NBC's Andrea Mitchell took up the cause of the White House in admonishing Big Labor for wasting their money on trying to defeat Arkansas Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln in the primary there, as she echoed their concern, on Thursday's Andrea Mitchell Reports, that organized labor essentially aided Republican John Boozman's chances to win in the general election. Mitchell invited on AFSCME…
GMA Frets About CEO's 'Running the Country
Catherine Crier doesn't understand why successful businessmen 'tout their credential' in political campaigns
MSNBC's Tamron Hall: Carly Fiorina 'Like Lindsay Lohan Movie, Mean Gir
During the 11AM ET hour on MSNBC, anchor Contessa Brewer discussed open mic comments made by senatorial candidate Carly Fiorina with Huffington Post writer Ryan Grim and remarked that the California Republican has "the 'Mean Girls' mentality" and "comes off like that Lindsay Lohan movie 'Mean Girls.'"Hall was referring to Fiorina making fun of Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer's hairstyle on air…
Did Politico Inadvertently Reveal Too Much Detail About Cynical Democr
Illegal aliens.Eeek! I said the forbidden term. For the past few years the "preferable" but less accurate term to describe that group has been "illegal immigrants." Even that modified term has been too harsh for many advocates of amnesty who prefer the completely inaccurate term, "undocumented workers." However, in order to cynically sell the public on amnesty, the Democrats are willing to…
Media Reality Check: Team Obama's Grubby Federal Job-Dangling Is Not N
On February 18, Rep. Joe Sestak, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania, revealed in a Philadelphia TV interview that the Obama White House offered him a job in an effort to talk him out of opposing Sen. Arlen Specter, who’d recently switched parties. Network interviewers asked the White House for comment, but the network news bosses at ABC, CBS, and NBC kept any mention of…
Chris Wallace: Fox News Getting Helen Thomas’ Old Seat Would Be 'Poe
This might upset some of the Fox News-ophobes within DC media circles, the so-called purists that tend to look down on the highly rated cable news outlet. As Fox News is purportedly competing with Bloomberg for that front-row seat once occupied by the former dean of the White House press corps and Hearst Newspaper columnist Helen Thomas, Chris Wallace, the host of "Fox News Sunday," suggested…
Sting and Soros Hook Up For A Duet Of Pro-drug Stupidity
Editor's Note: The following was originally posted at Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood. Seeing that George Soros and Sting are working together to “end the drug war” puts me in mind of a story an Army buddy who works in the DEA told me about busting in the door of a drug house only to find three occupants – the oldest four years old, having been left in charge while his “parents” went out to…
Stephen Colbert Defends Helen Thomas By Bashing Rush Limbaugh and Glen
Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert on Wednesday defended Helen Thomas's anti-Semitic remarks by attacking conservative talk radio hosts Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, John Gibson, and Michael Savage.Addressing the comments that led Thomas to resign her position with the Hearst News Service, Colbert said, "Jesus Christ on a matzo cracker, Helen. What were you thinking?"He continued, "You don't just…